1 Samuel 4:18

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living in it.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”

They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.

You shall not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the children of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy,

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

“Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

He took Elijah’s mantle that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he also had struck the waters, they were divided apart, and Elisha went over.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

The room which faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi come near to Yahweh to minister to him.”

Then he said to me, “The north rooms and the south rooms, which are before the separate place, are the holy rooms, where the priests who are near to Yahweh shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, with the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.

But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”

Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have been disobedient to Yahweh’s mouth, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,

So Saul died with his three sons; and all his house died together.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.